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Title: ACCELERATING DISCOVERY IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
THROUGH PETASCALE SIMULATIONS AND ANALYSIS (PetaApps)
Date: 04/24/07
ACCELERATING DISCOVERY IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING THROUGH PETASCALE
SIMULATIONS AND ANALYSIS (PetaApps)
Program Solicitation
NSF 07-559
[NSF Logo] National Science Foundation
Office of Cyberinfrastructure
Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Directorate for Engineering
Directorate for Geosciences
Division of Earth Sciences
Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time):
July 23, 2007
SUMMARY OF PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
General Information
Program Title:
ACCELERATING DISCOVERY IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING THROUGH
PETASCALE SIMULATIONS AND ANALYSIS (PetaApps)
Synopsis of Program:
This solicitation seeks proposals to develop the future
simulation, optimization and analysis tools that can use
petascale computing to advance the frontiers of scientific and
engineering research. Proposals are sought from researchers
aiming to capitalize on emerging petascale computing
architectures, catalyzing progress in science and engineering
beyond the current state-of-the-art. NSF's emphasis is on
implementation and exploitation of forefront techniques.
Proposers must be prepared to demonstrate that they have a
science or engineering research problem that requires or can
exploit petascale computing capabilities. Proposals from or
including junior researchers are encouraged as one of the goals
of this solicitation is to build a community capable of using
petascale computing.
Cognizant Program Officer(s):
* Daryl Hess, Program Director, MPS, telephone: (703) 292-4942, email:
dhess@nsf.gov
* Hans Kaper, Program Director, MPS, telephone: (703) 292-4859, email:
hkaper@nsf.gov
* Stephen Meacham, Program Director, OCI, telephone: (703) 292-8970,
email: smeacham@nsf.gov
* Eduardo Misawa, Program Director, ENG, telephone: (703) 292-5353,
email: emisawa@nsf.gov
* Abani Patra, Program Director, OCI, telephone: (703) 292-8970, email:
apatra@nsf.gov
* Barry Schneider, Program Director, MPS, telephone: (703) 292-7383,
email: bschneid@nsf.gov
* Nigel Sharp, Program Director, MPS, telephone: (703) 292-4905, email:
nsharp@nsf.gov
* Almadena Chtchelkanova, Program Director, CISE, telephone: (703)
292-8910, email: achtchel@nsf.gov
* Eva Zanzerkia, Program Director, GEO, telephone: (703) 292-8556,
email: ezanzerk@nsf.gov
Applicable Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s):
* 47.041 --- Engineering
* 47.049 --- Mathematical and Physical Sciences
* 47.050 --- Geosciences
* 47.070 --- Computer and Information Science and Engineering
* 47.080 --- Office of Cyberinfrastructure
Award Information
Anticipated Type of Award: Standard Grant or Continuing Grant
Estimated Number of Awards: 11 to 22
Anticipated Funding Amount: $21,500,000 including anticipated out-year
commitments, pending availability of funds
Eligibility Information
Organization Limit:
None Specified
PI Limit:
None Specified
Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:
None Specified
Limit on Number of Proposals per PI: 1
An individual may be the PI in no more than one proposal that
responds to this solicitation. There is no limit on the number
of proposals with which an individual may be associated in other
capacities such as co-PI or other senior personnel.
Proposal Preparation and Submission Instructions
A. Proposal Preparation Instructions
* Letters of Intent: Not Applicable
* Preliminary Proposal Submission: Not Applicable
* Full Proposals:
* Full Proposals submitted via FastLane: NSF Proposal and Award
Policies and Procedures Guide, Part I: Grant Proposal Guide (GPG)
Guidelines apply. The complete text of the GPG is available
electronically on the NSF website at:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=gpg.
* Full Proposals submitted via Grants.gov: NSF Grants.gov
Application Guide: A Guide for the Preparation and Submission of
NSF Applications via Grants.gov Guidelines apply (Note: The NSF
Grants.gov Application Guide is available on the Grants.gov
website and on the NSF website at:
http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/docs/grantsgovguide.pdf)
B. Budgetary Information
* Cost Sharing Requirements: Cost Sharing is not required under this
solicitation.
* Indirect Cost (F&A) Limitations: Not Applicable
* Other Budgetary Limitations: Not Applicable
C. Due Dates
* Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time):
July 23, 2007
Proposal Review Information Criteria
Merit Review Criteria: National Science Board approved criteria.
Additional merit review considerations apply. Please see the full text of
this solicitation for further information.
Award Administration Information
Award Conditions: Standard NSF award conditions apply.
Reporting Requirements: Standard NSF reporting requirements apply.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Summary of Program Requirements
I. Introduction
II. Program Description
III. Award Information
IV. Eligibility Information
V. Proposal Preparation and Submission Instructions
A. Proposal Preparation Instructions
B. Budgetary Information
C. Due Dates
D. FastLane/Grants.gov Requirements
VI. NSF Proposal Processing and Review Procedures
A. NSF Merit Review Criteria
B. Review and Selection Process
VII. Award Administration Information
A. Notification of the Award
B. Award Conditions
C. Reporting Requirements
VIII.Agency Contacts
IX. Other Information
I. INTRODUCTION
How do massive stars explode and produce the heaviest elements in the
periodic table? If we could design catalysts atom-by-atom, could we
transform industrial synthesis? What strategies might be developed to
optimize management of complex infrastructure systems? What kind of
language processing can occur in large assemblages of neurons? Can we
enable integrated planning and response to natural and man-made disasters
that prevent or minimize the loss of life and property? Can we enable full
reactive fluid flow, structural, dynamical and thermal simulation of
combustion engines? Can we solve large-scale inverse problems leading to
product, material, manufacturing process and supply chain synthesis and
optimization? What are the thermal and mechanical properties of minerals at
the temperatures and pressures encountered in the lower mantle and outer
core of the Earth? These are just some of the important questions that
researchers wish to answer using state-of-the-art High-Performance
Computing (HPC) systems.
By 2011, it is anticipated that researchers will be able to access a rich
mix of HPC systems with some capable of delivering sustained performance in
excess of one petaflop/s. Trends in HPC architecture are such that, at the
highest end, production systems in the next two to three years are expected
to consist of tens of thousands to a few hundred thousand processors, with
each processor containing multiple cores, each core capable of executing
multiple threads, and, often, arithmetic units that support small vector
instructions. These features present a programmer with a number of
different ways to exploit different types of parallelism within
algorithms. Optimizing performance involves a number of challenges,
including discovering and exploiting parallelism within codes and
overlapping different types of operations. Multi-level caches, local and
remote main memory, intra-nodal and inter-nodal communication networks and
parallel I/O interfaces offer an increasingly deep hierarchy of latency
within computing systems. In addition, other types of commercial HPC
system designs are emerging, including hybrid systems in which general
purpose processors are coupled with specialized co-processors, either
on-chip or separate.
Several recent developments can simplify the challenge of developing
scientific and engineering computer codes that scale to large fractions of
leading-edge computing systems. One such development consists of
increasingly sophisticated techniques for fine-grained performance analysis
that take advantage of improved hardware and software instrumentation.
Performance modeling enables an investigator to predict the performance of
a well-characterized code on new systems and thus to structure the code so
that it is more portable across a range of HPC systems. Another example is
the development of more sophisticated compilers that offer simpler
programming models; for example, Partitioned Global Address Space
compilers, such as Co-Array Fortran, UPC and Titanium, together with their
underlying native-mode communications libraries.
An area of innovation is that of algorithm design. New modeling techniques
enable researchers to take a more comprehensive view of physical phenomena
stretching across disparate length and time scales, including the
capability to match details accurately at the scale boundaries. As our
ability to simulate multi-scale phenomena increases, in some cases it may
become important to include stochastic effects to represent aspects of
phenomena at the microscopic scale. Thus there is a need for sophisticated
statistical sampling techniques in large-scale scientific computations.
New statistical and geometrical techniques have increased our ability to
uncover structure in seemingly uncorrelated multi-dimensional data sets.
New numerical algorithms can take advantage of petascale computing
architectures. Many of these advances are only slowly being included in
computationally intensive scientific and engineering research.
This solicitation seeks proposals to develop the future simulation,
optimization and analysis tools that can use petascale computing to advance
the frontiers of scientific and engineering research.
II. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The primary purpose of this solicitation is to support projects that will
enable researchers to capitalize on emerging petascale computing
architectures and thus catalyze progress in science and engineering beyond
the current state-of-the-art. The emphasis is on implementation and
exploitation of forefront techniques. Proposals from or including junior
researchers are encouraged as one of the goals of this solicitation is to
build a community capable of using petascale computing.
Proposers must be prepared to demonstrate that they have a science or
engineering research challenge requiring petascale computing and that they
have a path to exploiting such computation capabilities effectively. For
example, such a path might consist of exploring new ideas for how to scale
algorithms and codes from current computing capabilities to the petascale
level, for the development of new algorithms and techniques that exploit
O(1,000,000) processors and deep memory hierarchies, or for algorithms that
require hundreds of terabytes of memory. Research outcomes should
demonstrate an ability to solve the science or engineering research
challenge identified. It is not necessary that proposals contain a
complete plan to answer the science or engineering research question
definitively, but PIs should show that they will, by the end of the
project, be able to enlist petascale computing to tackle their problem,
with a strong expectation of success. The codes developed should have
broad impact in a particular research field and should be made freely
available under one of the standard forms of open-source licenses.
Proposals are encouraged in the following areas, although work in other
areas will also be considered:
* enhancing algorithmic scalability using techniques that better exploit
multi-threaded, highly parallel, hierarchical architectures,
* improving and creating data sampling, analysis, and clustering
algorithms for massive data sets, including scalable interactive
visualization tools,
* developing innovative modeling, simulation or optimization algorithms
suitable for petascale systems,
* developing platform-independent software to solve forefront scientific
problems on petascale systems,
* optimizing software for specific petascale hardware or predicted
"best guess" extrapolations to future hardware,
* exploring innovative computational techniques that were not previously
considered viable because of limited hardware capability,
* conducting performance analysis and profiling of software that is
heavily used but may never have been analyzed for scalability,
bottle-necks, and optimization,
* changing functioning problem solvers by substituting algorithmic
implementations known from CS research to scale more effectively to
computing systems of very large scale,
* adapting a research code that currently uses MPI on supercomputers, to
one or more of Co-Array Fortran, UPC or Titanium, in a form that will
be useful for specific petascale problems.
The focus of the proposal may be in any of the following areas:
* Astronomy and Astrophysics
* Chemistry
* Computer Science
* Earth Sciences
* Engineering
* Materials Science
* Mathematics and Statistics
* Physics
It is anticipated that, in each of these areas, only one or two proposals
will be funded (up to five in engineering) and that these will be proposals
that have a high potential for a strategically important impact in these
research areas. Projects that involve computer scientists and
computational mathematicians in the development of new algorithms,
programming techniques, or HPC software libraries, and that will benefit a
broad range of science and engineering disciplines will be welcomed but all
proposals should clearly define the scientific or engineering research
questions that will be addressable with the petascale software that the
proposals intend to develop. Successful proposals in response to this
solicitation will describe projects that go beyond the scope and priorities
of core programs in computational science and engineering, for example
through interdisciplinary collaborations. Investigators should include in
their proposals a clearly labeled statement explaining why they believe the
proposed work presents a special opportunity for early coding and testing
on petascale hardware.
III. AWARD INFORMATION
Estimated program budget, number of awards and average award size/duration
are subject to the availability of funds. Proposal budgets should not
exceed $2M in size and the requested duration should not exceed five years.
IV. ELIGIBILITY INFORMATION
Organization Limit:
None Specified
PI Limit:
None Specified
Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization:
None Specified
Limit on Number of Proposals per PI: 1
An individual may be the PI in no more than one proposal that
responds to this solicitation. There is no limit on the number
of proposals with which an individual may be associated in other
capacities such as co-PI or other senior personnel.
Additional Eligibility Info:
V. PROPOSAL PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
A. Proposal Preparation Instructions
Full Proposal Preparation Instructions: Proposers may opt to submit
proposals in response to this Program Solicitation via Grants.gov or via
the NSF FastLane system.
* Full proposals submitted via FastLane: Proposals submitted in response
to this program solicitation should be prepared and submitted in
accordance with the general guidelines contained in the NSF Grant
Proposal Guide (GPG). The complete text of the GPG is available
electronically on the NSF website at:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=gpg. Paper copies
of the GPG may be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse,
telephone (703) 292-7827 or by e-mail from pubs@nsf.gov. Proposers are
reminded to identify this program solicitation number in the program
solicitation block on the NSF Cover Sheet For Proposal to the National
Science Foundation. Compliance with this requirement is critical to
determining the relevant proposal processing guidelines. Failure to
submit this information may delay processing.
* Full proposals submitted via Grants.gov: Proposals submitted in
response to this program solicitation via Grants.gov should be
prepared and submitted in accordance with the NSF Grants.gov
Application Guide: A Guide for the Preparation and Submission of NSF
Applications via Grants.gov. The complete text of the NSF Grants.gov
Application Guide is available on the Grants.gov website and on the
NSF website at:
(http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/docs/grantsgovguide.pdf). To
obtain copies of the Application Guide and Application Forms Package,
click on the Apply tab on the Grants.gov site, then click on the Apply
Step 1: Download a Grant Application Package and Application
Instructions link and enter the funding opportunity number, (the
program solicitation number without the NSF prefix) and press the
Download Package button. Paper copies of the Grants.gov Application
Guide also may be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse,
telephone (703) 292-7827 or by e-mail from pubs@nsf.gov.
In determining which method to utilize in the electronic preparation and
submission of the proposal, please note the following:
Collaborative Proposals. All collaborative proposals submitted as separate
submissions from multiple organizations must be submitted via the NSF
FastLane system. Chapter II, Section D.3 of the Grant Proposal Guide
provides additional information on collaborative proposals.
Proposals must include a clearly labeled statement explaining why the
investigators believe the proposed work would not be appropriate for
existing NSF funding opportunities, including core programs, and a clearly
labeled statement explaining why the investigators believe that the
proposed work presents a special opportunity for early coding and testing
on petascale hardware.
Supplementary Documents
Proposals should include the following sections as Supplementary Documents:
* A list of all organizations involved in the project;
* A single, alphabetically ordered list of all people, in the academic
or professional community, who have collaborated with (within the last
48 months), or have been a Ph.D. advisee or advisor of, any of the
personnel involved in the proposed project. In this list, please
include, next to the name of each conflicted individual, that
individual’s institution or company and the name of the project
member with whom he or she has the conflict of interest. It is not
necessary to list, as collaborators, personnel who are employees of an
institution or company clearly involved in the project; and,
* Letters of commitment from individuals who are from organizations
other than the proposing organization or proposed sub-awardees and who
are described in the Project Description as involved in the project in
a senior capacity, or from authorized representatives of institutions
or organizations collaborating with the lead institution.
B. Budgetary Information
Cost Sharing: Cost sharing is not required under this solicitation.
C. Due Dates
* Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local time):
July 23, 2007
D. FastLane/Grants.gov Requirements
* For Proposals Submitted Via FastLane:
Detailed technical instructions regarding the technical aspects of
preparation and submission via FastLane are available at:
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/newstan.htm. For FastLane user
support, call the FastLane Help Desk at 1-800-673-6188 or e-mail
fastlane@nsf.gov. The FastLane Help Desk answers general technical
questions related to the use of the FastLane system. Specific
questions related to this program solicitation should be referred to
the NSF program staff contact(s) listed in Section VIII of this
funding opportunity.
Submission of Electronically Signed Cover Sheets. The Authorized
Organizational Representative (AOR) must electronically sign the
proposal Cover Sheet to submit the required proposal certifications
(see Chapter II, Section C of the Grant Proposal Guide for a listing
of the certifications). The AOR must provide the required electronic
certifications within five working days following the electronic
submission of the proposal. Further instructions regarding this
process are available on the FastLane Website at:
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/fastlane.jsp.
* For Proposals Submitted Via Grants.gov:
Before using Grants.gov for the first time, each organization must
register to create an institutional profile. Once registered, the
applicant's organization can then apply for any federal grant on the
Grants.gov website. The Grants.gov's Grant Community User Guide is a
comprehensive reference document that provides technical information
about Grants.gov. Proposers can download the User Guide as a Microsoft
Word document or as a PDF document. The Grants.gov User Guide is
available at: http://www.grants.gov/CustomerSupport. In addition, the
NSF Grants.gov Application Guide provides additional technical
guidance regarding preparation of proposals via Grants.gov. For
Grants.gov user support, contact the Grants.gov Contact Center at
1-800-518-4726 or by email: support@grants.gov. The Grants.gov Contact
Center answers general technical questions related to the use of
Grants.gov. Specific questions related to this program solicitation
should be referred to the NSF program staff contact(s) listed in
Section VIII of this solicitation.
Submitting the Proposal: Once all documents have been completed, the
Authorized Organizational Representative (AOR) must submit the
application to Grants.gov and verify the desired funding opportunity
and agency to which the application is submitted. The AOR must then
sign and submit the application to Grants.gov. The completed
application will be transferred to the NSF FastLane system for further
processing.
VI. NSF PROPOSAL PROCESSING AND REVIEW PROCEDURES
Proposals received by NSF are assigned to the appropriate NSF program where
they will be reviewed if they meet NSF proposal preparation requirements.
All proposals are carefully reviewed by a scientist, engineer, or educator
serving as an NSF Program Officer, and usually by three to ten other
persons outside NSF who are experts in the particular fields represented by
the proposal. These reviewers are selected by Program Officers charged with
the oversight of the review process. Proposers are invited to suggest names
of persons they believe are especially well qualified to review the
proposal and/or persons they would prefer not review the proposal. These
suggestions may serve as one source in the reviewer selection process at
the Program Officer's discretion. Submission of such names, however, is
optional. Care is taken to ensure that reviewers have no conflicts of
interest with the proposal.
A. NSF Merit Review Criteria
All NSF proposals are evaluated through use of the two National Science
Board (NSB)-approved merit review criteria: intellectual merit and the
broader impacts of the proposed effort. In some instances, however, NSF
will employ additional criteria as required to highlight the specific
objectives of certain programs and activities.
The two NSB-approved merit review criteria are listed below. The criteria
include considerations that help define them. These considerations are
suggestions and not all will apply to any given proposal. While proposers
must address both merit review criteria, reviewers will be asked to address
only those considerations that are relevant to the proposal being
considered and for which the reviewer is qualified to make judgements.
What is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity?
How important is the proposed activity to advancing knowledge and
understanding within its own field or across different fields?
How well qualified is the proposer (individual or team) to
conduct the project? (If appropriate, the reviewer will comment
on the quality of the prior work.) To what extent does the
proposed activity suggest and explore creative, original, or
potentially transformative concepts? How well conceived and
organized is the proposed activity? Is there sufficient access to
resources?
What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity?
How well does the activity advance discovery and understanding
while promoting teaching, training, and learning? How well does
the proposed activity broaden the participation of
underrepresented groups (e.g., gender, ethnicity, disability,
geographic, etc.)? To what extent will it enhance the
infrastructure for research and education, such as facilities,
instrumentation, networks, and partnerships? Will the results be
disseminated broadly to enhance scientific and technological
understanding? What may be the benefits of the proposed activity
to society?
Examples illustrating activities likely to demonstrate broader impacts are
available electronically on the NSF website at:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/gpg/broaderimpacts.pdf.
NSF staff also will give careful consideration to the following in making
funding decisions:
Integration of Research and Education
One of the principal strategies in support of NSF's goals is to
foster integration of research and education through the
programs, projects, and activities it supports at academic and
research institutions. These institutions provide abundant
opportunities where individuals may concurrently assume
responsibilities as researchers, educators, and students and
where all can engage in joint efforts that infuse education with
the excitement of discovery and enrich research through the
diversity of learning perspectives.
Integrating Diversity into NSF Programs, Projects, and Activities
Broadening opportunities and enabling the participation of all
citizens -- women and men, underrepresented minorities, and
persons with disabilities -- is essential to the health and
vitality of science and engineering. NSF is committed to this
principle of diversity and deems it central to the programs,
projects, and activities it considers and supports.
Additional Review Criteria:
Additional factors in the evaluation process will include the
likelihood of enabling future transformative research, the importance
of any products within and/or across scientific fields, the efficiency
with which petascale computing will be exploited, and the appropriate
use of forefront methods. In addition, reviewers will be asked to
evaluate the investigator’s statement about why the proposed
work would not be appropriate for existing NSF funding opportunities,
including core programs.
B. Review and Selection Process
Proposals submitted in response to this program solicitation will be
reviewed by Ad hoc Review and/or Panel Review.
Reviewers will be asked to formulate a recommendation to either support or
decline each proposal. The Program Officer assigned to manage the
proposal's review will consider the advice of reviewers and will formulate
a recommendation.
After scientific, technical and programmatic review and consideration of
appropriate factors, the NSF Program Officer recommends to the cognizant
Division Director whether the proposal should be declined or recommended
for award. NSF is striving to be able to tell applicants whether their
proposals have been declined or recommended for funding within six months.
The time interval begins on the deadline or target date, or receipt date,
whichever is later. The interval ends when the Division Director accepts
the Program Officer's recommendation.
A summary rating and accompanying narrative will be completed and submitted
by each reviewer. In all cases, reviews are treated as confidential
documents. Verbatim copies of reviews, excluding the names of the
reviewers, are sent to the Principal Investigator/Project Director by the
Program Officer. In addition, the proposer will receive an explanation of
the decision to award or decline funding.
In all cases, after programmatic approval has been obtained, the proposals
recommended for funding will be forwarded to the Division of Grants and
Agreements for review of business, financial, and policy implications and
the processing and issuance of a grant or other agreement. Proposers are
cautioned that only a Grants and Agreements Officer may make commitments,
obligations or awards on behalf of NSF or authorize the expenditure of
funds. No commitment on the part of NSF should be inferred from technical
or budgetary discussions with a NSF Program Officer. A Principal
Investigator or organization that makes financial or personnel commitments
in the absence of a grant or cooperative agreement signed by the NSF Grants
and Agreements Officer does so at their own risk.
VII. AWARD ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION
A. Notification of the Award
Notification of the award is made to the submitting organization by a
Grants Officer in the Division of Grants and Agreements. Organizations
whose proposals are declined will be advised as promptly as possible by the
cognizant NSF Program administering the program. Verbatim copies of
reviews, not including the identity of the reviewer, will be provided
automatically to the Principal Investigator. (See Section VI.B. for
additional information on the review process.)
B. Award Conditions
An NSF award consists of: (1) the award letter, which includes any special
provisions applicable to the award and any numbered amendments thereto; (2)
the budget, which indicates the amounts, by categories of expense, on which
NSF has based its support (or otherwise communicates any specific approvals
or disapprovals of proposed expenditures); (3) the proposal referenced in
the award letter; (4) the applicable award conditions, such as Grant
General Conditions (GC-1); * or Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP)
Terms and Conditions * and (5) any announcement or other NSF issuance that
may be incorporated by reference in the award letter. Cooperative
agreements also are administered in accordance with NSF Cooperative
Agreement Financial and Administrative Terms and Conditions (CA-FATC) and
the applicable Programmatic Terms and Conditions. NSF awards are
electronically signed by an NSF Grants and Agreements Officer and
transmitted electronically to the organization via e-mail.
*These documents may be accessed electronically on NSF's Website at
http://www.nsf.gov/awards/managing/general_conditions.jsp?org=NSF. Paper
copies may be obtained from the NSF Publications Clearinghouse, telephone
(703) 292-7827 or by e-mail from pubs@nsf.gov.
More comprehensive information on NSF Award Conditions and other important
information on the administration of NSF awards is contained in the NSF
Award & Administration Guide (AAG) Chapter II, available electronically on
the NSF Website at
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=aag.
C. Reporting Requirements
For all multi-year grants (including both standard and continuing grants),
the Principal Investigator must submit an annual project report to the
cognizant Program Officer at least 90 days before the end of the current
budget period. (Some programs or awards require more frequent project
reports). Within 90 days after expiration of a grant, the PI also is
required to submit a final project report.
Failure to provide the required annual or final project reports will delay
NSF review and processing of any future funding increments as well as any
pending proposals for that PI. PIs should examine the formats of the
required reports in advance to assure availability of required data.
PIs are required to use NSF's electronic project-reporting system,
available through FastLane, for preparation and submission of annual and
final project reports. Such reports provide information on activities and
findings, project participants (individual and organizational)
publications; and, other specific products and contributions. PIs will not
be required to re-enter information previously provided, either with a
proposal or in earlier updates using the electronic system. Submission of
the report via FastLane constitutes certification by the PI that the
contents of the report are accurate and complete.
VIII. AGENCY CONTACTS
General inquiries regarding this program should be made to:
* Daryl Hess, Program Director, MPS, telephone: (703) 292-4942, email:
dhess@nsf.gov
* Hans Kaper, Program Director, MPS, telephone: (703) 292-4859, email:
hkaper@nsf.gov
* Stephen Meacham, Program Director, OCI, telephone: (703) 292-8970,
email: smeacham@nsf.gov
* Eduardo Misawa, Program Director, ENG, telephone: (703) 292-5353,
email: emisawa@nsf.gov
* Abani Patra, Program Director, OCI, telephone: (703) 292-8970, email:
apatra@nsf.gov
* Barry Schneider, Program Director, MPS, telephone: (703) 292-7383,
email: bschneid@nsf.gov
* Nigel Sharp, Program Director, MPS, telephone: (703) 292-4905, email:
nsharp@nsf.gov
* Almadena Chtchelkanova, Program Director, CISE, telephone: (703)
292-8910, email: achtchel@nsf.gov
* Eva Zanzerkia, Program Director, GEO, telephone: (703) 292-8556,
email: ezanzerk@nsf.gov
For questions related to the use of FastLane, contact:
* FastLane Help Desk, telephone: 1-800-673-6188; e-mail:
fastlane@nsf.gov.
For questions relating to Grants.gov contact:
* Grants.gov Contact Center: If the Authorized Organizational
Representatives (AOR) has not received a confirmation message from
Grants.gov within 48 hours of submission of application, please
contact via telephone: 1-800-518-4726; e-mail: support@grants.gov.
IX. OTHER INFORMATION
The NSF Website provides the most comprehensive source of information on
NSF Directorates (including contact information), programs and funding
opportunities. Use of this Website by potential proposers is strongly
encouraged. In addition, MyNSF (formerly the Custom News Service) is an
information-delivery system designed to keep potential proposers and other
interested parties apprised of new NSF funding opportunities and
publications, important changes in proposal and award policies and
procedures, and upcoming NSF Regional Grants Conferences. Subscribers are
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